from level

• CURIE: gmeow:fromLevel
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/fromLevel
• Category: property
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/learning
• Box roles: RBox role (What is this?)

The proficiency or knowledge level an agent held BEFORE a learning event — the start of the trajectory. The RANGE is left intentionally open: the level is a cognition gmeow:KnowledgeLevel (gmeow:knowledgeAware … gmeow:knowledgeMastered) or a kernel / expertise gmeow:ProficiencyLevel (e.g. a Dreyfus stage), but asserting a range would close the surface, so it stays open and is documented in prose. NOT functional — an event may move along more than one dimension. A RISE over time is a SEQUENCE of reified proficiency tenures (Principle 10), never the mutation of one relator.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:LearningEvent -> ?

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:fromLevel from gmeow:LearningEvent to ? when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Skill Acquisition Trajectory

• Source: slices/core/learning/examples/skill-acquisition-trajectory.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-learning-examples-skill-acquisition-trajectory

@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/learning/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .



# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: a proficiency RISE as a SEQUENCE of tenures, never a mutation.
# Two gmeow:LearningEvent occurrents raise lillith's cycling skill — a skill
# acquisition (novice → advanced beginner) and a consolidating practice block
# (advanced beginner → expert). Each event gmeow:produces its OWN reified
# gmeow:SkillProficiency relator, scoped by its own interval; the earlier tenure
# is kept with gmeow:displayable false rather than overwritten (Principle 10).
# The trajectory of one event rides gmeow:fromLevel / gmeow:toLevel; the durable
# standing is the proficiency tenure the event produced.

# --- Event 1: skill acquisition, novice → advanced beginner (the spring).
ex:firstLessons a gmeow:LearningEvent ;
    gmeow:experiencer ex:lillith ;
    gmeow:mentalProcessType gmeow:processLearning ;
    gmeow:learningType gmeow:learningSkillAcquisition ;
    gmeow:learnedFrom ex:textbook ;
    gmeow:fromLevel gmeow:dreyfusNovice ;
    gmeow:toLevel gmeow:dreyfusAdvancedBeginner ;
    gmeow:produces ex:profSpring ;
    gmeow:eventTime "2026-03-15T10:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime ; # temporal placement — CONSTITUTION P11
    gmeow:eventTemporalFrame gmeow:temporalFrameUTCGregorian ;
    rdfs:label "first cycling lessons"@en .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:LearningEvent

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to record the level an agent held before a learning event — the start of the proficiency / knowledge trajectory the event traversed.

Avoid when

• Avoid expecting a fixed range (a gmeow:KnowledgeLevel or a gmeow:ProficiencyLevel are both admitted) and avoid mutating one proficiency relator to model a rise; mint a new proficiency tenure and suppress the prior one (Principle 10).

How to use

• Point the event at the gmeow:KnowledgeLevel or gmeow:ProficiencyLevel the agent held before it; pair with gmeow:toLevel for the level reached, and reify the standing as a proficiency tenure when the trajectory over time is itself the fact.

Scope notes

• Trajectory, not mutation (Principle 10): gmeow:fromLevel / gmeow:toLevel record the endpoints of one learning event; the agent's standing over time is a sequence of cognition gmeow:KnowledgeProficiency / expertise gmeow:SkillProficiency tenures, each scoped by its own interval (the temporal gmeow:TimeScopedRelation idiom), the prior tenure kept with gmeow:displayable false rather than overwritten.

Examples

• ex:lesson gmeow:fromLevel gmeow:dreyfusNovice.